CHILE: Allende's Troubles

"To those who say the days of Chile's popular
government are numbered, I say that they can swallow their tongues." So
recently declared Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens, the first
Marxist head of state to win office through a free election.
Nonetheless, wagging tongues inside and out of Chile continue to
predict doom for Allende's 14-month-old Popular Unity coalition. Their
predictions may be premature, but Chile's economic problems are
steadily worsening, and the opposition forces of the Christian
Democrats and the rightist National Party are increasing their attacks
on Allende, whose...